Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
Children in Ghana, some as young as 5, are working cocoa fields and wielding machetes instead of attending school.
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Also known as slaves, since they are not paid, not allowed to go to school or leave, and beaten and cut as punishment.
Stop eating slave chocolate, folks.
There is ethical chocolate available.
Where is that mythical ethical chocolate?
Tony's is one of the bigger brands. Even they will admit their efforts aren't always perfect but it's about constant audits to keep the supply line safe
Yeah I know about Tonys's. Do you know where I could find the findings of those audits?
It used to come in an annual report but I couldn't find the last few years
https://tonyschocolonely.com/uk/en/annual-fair-reports/annual-fair-report-2019-2020
Directly on their website: https://tonyschocolonely.com/uk/en/annual-fair-reports/annual-fair-report-2021-2022
But that isn't an audit report, is it? Just pr material that they themselves produced.
I eat chocolonely, it's in supermarkets near me.
Here's a list of ethical chocolate companies:
https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-companies
Look for fair trade. (Endandgered species chocalate is pretty good) they all still have shady practices ofc but you will get better chocalate!
Mythical? It's at Aldi!
Ok, where?? So I was already avoiding Nestle, now I find out Mars is in on this shit too. Is there any chocolate I can eat that isn't born from child slave labor? Are Reese's ok? I just want chocolate without supporting literal slavery.
Edit: just saw your other comment
Most supermarkets these days have ethical chocolate alternatives. Their brands aren't as well-known so you might not notice them unless you're looking for them, that was my case.
Then the first time I looked for ethical chocolate, chocolonely was right there on display in the first Safeway I walked into.
Most of the farmers producing the cocoa in your chocolate have themselves never tasted chocolate before.
What if we keep eating slave chocolate, but we make the slave owners buy "freedom cocoa" credits from places where cocoa is being farmed ethically already?
Then we'll be prolonging unnecessary child slavery and abuse.
They're slave owners, their profit margin is pretty wide and their industry standards are not very strict, as you might imagine.
The most effective way to end trafficking/slavery linked to chocolate is to stop buying slave chocolate.
It's mocking carbon credits.
It's fine because the slaves are in the other country and we get to call ourselves pioneer of human rights and green power to live guilt free. It's totally not by design, no sir.
Idk what you mean by "other country."
Are those like big, not-here states?
